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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  've got my money on Germany. Good thing the weather conditions are better in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 MIT Admissions Statistics Summary statistics from the past year.

  

  By popular demand, below you'll find admissions statistics from this past application cycle. These numbers will be posted on MyMIT later this summer. I also hope to post an enrolling class profile and more statistics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  graduating students (you can frequently see my thumb). Marsha is broadcasting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Miscellaneous Admissions Office updates.

  

  , unfortunately, once again fallen far behind on my email. Aplogies if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam ... still passed. However, shortly after getting my test I exclaimed, "Shoot ... score, but I quickly followed it with "I stapled my finger!" After a few

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dewey Love Libraries? Yes we dew!

  

  Yes we dew. I am not very shy about my love and affection for the MIT library system. (See here and here for evidence.) On Saturday afternoons, I oftentimes embark on library crawls, during which I visit up to 3 libraries in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thursday

  

  Sorry, things have been hectic lately, plus my knees really hurt. Tomorrow: 10:00-4:00 -- Earth Day 10:30-12:00 -- 14.64: Labor Economics class 12:00-1:00 -- economic lunch with Janet '06 4:00-5:00 -- thesis

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Sneak Preview

  

  Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my confidence that you will be admitted to several great colleges, and a letter

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  "eat my words" because Boston weather is crazy. But I don't care. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Fun With Photoshop Do you have mad Photoshop skills? Show us.

  

  Things are still pretty crazy around here, so until I get a chance to post, I'll keep you entertained with the following. As you know if you follow Matt's blog, my colleague Joanne's dog Evie is somewhat of an office

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  VSEPR Google News is the best.

  

  because I set my homepage to Google News. I only did that because I didn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A few quick answers The skinny.

  

  decisions will be released. Watch the blogs and MyMIT for more information

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing Two New MIT Students… ...classes of 2026 and 2028 respectively.

  

  Nance made his way to the world on January 11, 2006 at 10:40 pm. My wife ... Section!! He was 9 pounds 15 ounces and 22 inches long at birth. My wife was ... , I believe my dad said it best, "Wow, looks like you gave birth to a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  had already uploaded these pictures to my webspace, so now you have to look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace ... day of classes, after finding out the ISBNs for my classes, I went to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  arbitrarily. Hey folks, not too much of interest going on in my life right now. My entire lab flew all-expenses-paid down to Colorado for the week to ... was the property of my Ukrainian downstairs neighbor Albert. Tip: Once

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  students have done cool stuff on the Discovery Channel. A few years ago, my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  applications from the office; my stack is fairly random, including applicants ... down to read my applications, one at a time. I start reading the ... , synthesizing. I'm trying to understand you, your context, your story. Using my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  Each Wednesday, The Weekly Dig (my favorite rag) hits the newsstands. It's generally a mixture of pop culture and local political coverage with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005